Re: Ways to reduce calls to Validity BLs (was Validity (return path blocklist))

On 2025-05-06 at 12:33:00 UTC-0400 (Tue, 06 May 2025 12:33:00 -0400)
Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
[...]
> I think we have arrived at it being time to just drop all VALIDITY 
> rules
> from the default rulset.  Even if people using them in meta rules have
> to adjust (or add them back as local config).  The query limits are so
> low that it is hard to imagine any significant fraction of 
> spamassassin
> users being ok with them.

In what way it is harmful for those rules to be left in place, given 
that SA disables 'blocked' DNSBL servers when it encounters them.

I'm not a fan of Validity and I don't even believe that they have been 
honest here or have acted in good faith. But whether or not we change 
the default rules   is not based on how trusted the Validity folks are 
or even how useless their lists have become.

I'm always eager to make changes that actually improve SA. I am much 
more uneasy about making changes that are entirely cosmetic.


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